James Joyce

Ulysses [Signed Leaf Tipped in]

Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1927. Very Good. Item #13715

Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1927. Ninth printing. Large octavo; publisher's "Greek flag blue" wrappers lettered in white, housed in half morocco slipcase lettered in gilt, inner cloth chemise; 735pp. Wraps worn at extremities with very slight chipping to base of spine; spine creases with slight lean, else sound. Overall Very Good. Extra leaf tipped in at front and signed "James Joyce Paris 2-6-28."

The bound in leaf, inserted by an unknown previous party, coincides with Joyce living in Paris while Finnegan's Wake was being published serially under the title "fragments from Work in Progress." 

Slocum 17.

Price: $15,000.00